Gradient-based scales and similarity laws in the stable boundary layer

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 650, 2010, Pages 1243-1254

  Sorbjan, Z ^a,b  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Gradient based scaling; SHEBA data; Similarity theory; Stable boundary layer

Indexed keywords

FLUX RICHARDSON NUMBER; GRADIENT BASED; LOCAL MAXIMUM; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEUTRAL CONDITIONS; NONSTATIONARY; RICHARDSON NUMBER; SCALING SYSTEM; SELF-CORRELATION; SHEBA DATA; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY LAW; SIMILARITY THEORY; STABLE BOUNDARY LAYER; STRATIFIED BOUNDARY LAYERS; TURBULENT KINETIC ENERGY; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; KINETIC ENERGY; MIXED CONVECTION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TURBULENCE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

BOUNDARY LAYER; KINETIC ENERGY; MODELING; RICHARDSON NUMBER; TURBULENCE;

EID: 77956205468     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.638     Document Type: Article

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